The book celebrates the auctioning of the most fashionable artefacts, the highest prices and the rarest collectibles from the world of leisure and popular culture.
The 8th edition of Constructing the American Past presents an innovative combination of case studies and primary source documents from the 15th to the 19th century for readers to discover what life was like in the past.
Constructing the American Past: To 1877
Overview: Constructing the American Past explores U.S. history through letters, articles, journalistic sources, photographs and posters. This book achieves a level of inclusion and depth rarely found in other primary source collections.
Constructing the American Past: From 1865
The Adams Papers : Adams Family Correspondence , Volumes I and II , ( Cambridge , MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ... Notes on the State of Virginia ( 1787 ) , edited with an introduction and notes by William Peden .
It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people.
Sexual Borderlands: Constructing an American Sexual Past
Textbooks that contain a great deal of “history” and written in a narrative style, such as geographies or readers, present challenges that render them problematic for discerning the American Myth. For instance, my study of geography ...
Fortenatus Sherman's circulation record suggests the consequences of this popularity. In April and May 1822, Sherman checked out Volumes 1 and 2 in order. But when he returned the second volume on June 3, he could not check out the next ...